In the group-creativity vs lone-inventor debate, the inventor has a
great legacy of inventions to bolster his or her claim. Ideas appear in
only one brain at a time, and people working alone do not have to suffer
the anxieties of social outcasting for wrong thoughts nor the pains of
having their ideas rejected prematurely.

‘Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a
blessing. To others a curse. In is in reality the ability to reach inside
yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.’

‘Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always
either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These
are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional
rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no
longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.’